Justification by Unbelief Alone

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Here is our most recent Monday night session on the Solas of the Reformation.

This week we discussed Sous Christus, Christ alone.

Here is the quote I read from Robert Jenson:

“Faith no longer means, in ordinary usage, what it did in the usage of the Reformers. Perhaps the abstract best would be to eliminate the vocabulary for ‘justification’ and ‘faith’ from our gospel-language altogether; for, as the words ‘justification by faith’ are now almost certain to be understood, they are an exact contradiction of the Reformation proposition. As we shall see, the whole point of the Reformation was that the gospel-promise is unconditional; ‘faith’ did not specify a special condition of human fulfillment, it meant the possibility of a life freed from all conditionality of fulfillment…

’Justification by unbelief alone’ could be, now, the only way to make Reformation point with this vocabulary.”

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